Tuesday, 18 December 2012

Ngozi Nwosu Needs N6m to Survive

This will almost bring tears to your eyes. It brought tears to mine. Mr
Seun Oloketuyi ( a journalist) went to visit the sick actress at home
and she told him alot. Read below;

Ngozi Nwosu is dying. She has
lost it all; weight, strength and vigour but not her talent and deep
sense of humour which she displayed during the over one and a half hours
we spent together recently. Her emotions ranged from profound despair
to occasional outbursts of laughter at her own jokes.

When i got a
call from the organisers of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire to come play
in the special Celebrity Edition last week, i did not know it was the
cause of our Dear Ngozi i will be playing for until I got there. The
Director revealed this to me few minutes before recording began as Ngozi
sauntered in.

One of the first signs that things were no
longer right with Ngozi was the fact that we had to delay recording
because while everybody else was virtually fanning themselves due to the
studio lights, Ngozi was shivering from cold so much that the producers
had to get her cardigans. I was flustered.\

When the programme
eventually got underway, Ngozi still helped to answer some questions.
She summoned every ounce of strength in her body to look good for the
cameras. Then, it occurred to me that she might be withering, with life
slowly ebbing away from her before our very eyes, that acting talent is
still intact. As we made our way out of the studio after the recording,
she turned to me, despair etched on her brows as her eyes glistened with
tears, and said, “Seun, do you know I was here (WWTBAM) few years back
to play this game for Samanja and I didn’t know that I will be here
years later for people to play for me to survive. See life.” She burst
into tears. I fought back tears myself. I had never been so close to
crying in a long while but Ngozi’s story will break the steeliest of
hearts.

Moments later, we sat down to talk in the ante-room of
the studio. Her nurse told me that despite the fact that she has lost
half her original weight, she was better than three months back when she
could not even get up from bed in her Surulere, Lagos apartment.
“Thanks to God and medical attention, she is willing to give living
again a chance by fighting,” the nurse said.

When we probed
further on what exactly her ailment is, Ngozi wouldn’t say but instead
invited me to her home. Last Sunday, I was Ngozi’s guest, where she
showed me results of tests stating that she had kidney and heart-related
issues. I spent hours in her house as she led me by the hand through
the whole gamut of her illness. She told me she decided to divulge
everything because of widespread speculation that she was HIV positive.
“I don’t have AIDS o,” she declared.

The bottom line now is that
Ngozi needs N6m to treat herself abroad. And she needs it fast. Ngozi is
willing to live longer but we have to support her.

You can send
your widow’s mite to Ngozi Nwosu GTB 0052851673. May God bless you and
all that you take important as we rally round to save beautiful actress.